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At the Rosses they might; the Rosses were not so badly off as Derrybeg or Gweedore, for all they might say." "But Father M'Fadden had urged me," I said, "to see the Rosses, because the people there were worse off than any of the people."
The road from Bedlam to Derrybeg goes by a region of the "Rosses," reputed the most woe-begone part of the Gweedore district.
After luncheon I ordered a car, and drove to Derrybeg, to call there on Father M'Fadden, Lord Ernest, who has already seen him, agreeing to call there for me on his return from a walk. We passed much reclaimed bogland, mostly now in grass, and looking fairly well; many piles of turf and clusters of cottages, well-built, but not very neatly kept.
"Then they are falling back into all the old laziness, the men sauntering about, or sitting and smoking, while the women do all the work." The maid having told us Mass would be performed at noon, I walked with Lord Ernest a mile or so up the road to Derrybeg, to see the people thronging down from the hills; the women in their picturesque fashion wearing their bright shawls drawn over their heads.
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